* A skeleton of a local texmf tree is at /usr/local/share/texmf: this directory is writable for members of the group tex.

* A skeleton of a local texmf tree is at /usr/local/share/texmf: this directory is writable for members of the group tex.

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By default, the fonts that come with the various TeXLive packages are not automatically available to fontconfig. If you want to use them with, say XeTeX or OpenOffice, the easiest approach is to make symlinks as follows:

Introduction

Since 12 Sept. 2008, TeXLive packages are available in extra for both arches, hence replacing the obsolete tetex. Packages for the 2009 release of TeXLive are available since early September 2009 (thus before the official upstream release). By installing the packages texlive-core (57MB) and its dependency texlive-bin (15MB), you will have a very solid and bleeding-edge typesetting system at your disposal!

Important information

The way to handle font mappings for updmap has been improved in Sept. 2009, and installation should now be much more reliable than in the past. In the meanwhile, if you encounter error messages about unavailable map file, simply remove them by hand from the updmap.cfg file (ideally using "updmap-sys --edit"). You can also run "updmap-sys --sync-with-trees" to automatically comment out outdated map lines from the config file.

The ConTeXt formats (for MKII and MKIV) are not automatically generated upon installation. See the ConTeXT wiki for instructions on how to do this.

TeXLive (upstream) now provides a tool for incremental updates of CTAN packages. On that basis, we also plan to update our packages on a regular basis (we have written tools that almost automate that task).

Some tools and utilities included in TeX Live rely on ghostscript, perl, and ruby.

System-wide configuration files are under /usr/share/texmf-config. User-specific ones should be put under ~/.texlive/texmf-config. $TEXMFHOME is ~/texmf and $TEXMFVAR is ~/.texlive/texmf-var.

A skeleton of a local texmf tree is at /usr/local/share/texmf: this directory is writable for members of the group tex.

Fonts

By default, the fonts that come with the various TeXLive packages are not automatically available to fontconfig. If you want to use them with, say XeTeX or OpenOffice, the easiest approach is to make symlinks as follows:

List of all texlive-* packages

The texlive packages are arranged into two groups: texlive-most and texlive-lang
(NB: the groups texlive-most-doc and texlive-lang-doc are currently not provided but
might be re-added to community soon).

The essential package texlive-core contains the basic texmf-dist tree, while texlive-bin contains the binaries, libraries, and the texmf tree. texlive-core is based on the “medium” install scheme of the upstream distribution. All other packages are based on the eponymous collections in TeXLive. The following links bring to a list of the CTAN packages contained in each Arch package.

NB: texlive-omega is no longer provided, and the omega and aleph binaries are not included in texlive-bin. They are unmaintained and obsolete. All files that depend on omega should have been removed. (Note that omega/aleph are still part of the official TeXLive DVD, but will probably disappear next year.)

TeXLive Local Manager

Documentation

Usage: tllocalmgr
tllocalmgr [options] [command] [args]
Running tllocalmgr alone starts the TeXLive local manager shell
for Arch Linux. This shell is capable of command-line completion!
There you can look at the available updates with the command 'status'
and you can install individual CTAN packages using 'install' or 'update'
under $TEXMFLOCAL. This is done by creating a package texlive-local-<pkg>
and installing it with pacman. Note that this won’t interfere with your
standard texlive installation, but files under $TEXMFLOCAL will take
precedence.
Here are the commands available in the shell:
Commands:
status -- Current status of TeXLive installation
shortinfo * -- Print a one-liner description of CTAN packages
info * -- Print info on CTAN packages
update * -- Locally update CTAN packages
install * -- Locally install new CTAN packages
installdoc * -- Locally install documentation of CTAN packages
installsrc * -- Locally install sources of CTAN packages
listfiles * -- List all files in CTAN packages
search * -- Search info on CTAN packages
searchfiles * -- Search for files in CTAN packages
texhash -- Refresh the TeX file database
clean -- Clean local build tree
help -- Print helpful information
quit -- Quit tllocalmgr
The commands followed by * take one of more package names as arguments.
Note that these can be completed automatically by pressing TAB.
You can also run tllocalmgr as a standard command-line program, with
one of the above commands as argument, then the corresponding task will
be performed and the program will exit (except when the command is 'status').
tllocalmgr accepts the following options:
Options: --help Shows this help
--version Show the version number
--forceupdate Force updating the TeXLive database
--skipupdate Skip updating the TeXLive database
--localsearch Search only installed packages
--location #TODO?
--mirror CTAN mirror to use (default is mirror.ctan.org)
--nocolor #TODO

Alternative: TeXLive network install

Alternative: TeX Live with loop-mounted DVD ISO

See Also

For frequently asked qustions about TeX, TeXLive, and how it is packaged on arch, see the TeXLive FAQ. For basic information on LaTeX see LaTeX. If you are interested in using CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters, see this Tutorial